Harley00
The Rebel
Exxxxxactlly.Nobody want the trades anymore because it is turning into a bad investment.
I will use an Auto Technician for example.
Go to school. Pay stupid cost for the trade school. Struggle to find someone to take you as an apprentice. Now right off the bat, like before your first day, you have to invest/go in debt for thousands more dollars on top of school debt, to buy tools. A tool box, etc. For example, just one decent 1/2” drive impact wrench now cost upwards of $700. Thats a lot of money for a position that pays barely above minimum wage. So you starve for most of the year just to go to work.
Now time for school again. To do this you go on EI. So you were barely getting by before, now you are living off scraps. You repeat this cycle for four years. And for what? When its all done you probably owe as much as a law student when you factor in all the tools and shit. Then go work at a dealership for flat rate. The faster you get the more money you make. Then the manufacture sees techs are making time off the repairs, so they slash the time in half. Now you bought the tools, spent an hour and a half of your time and get paid 0.5hrs. Something goes wrong, whether your fault or not and the vehicle comes back with same issue and now you are fixing with no pay. But still providing the tools.
No option for a union, except some places in Ont. Next to no health and safety representation. Dust, chemicals, climate conditions ( car full of snow dripping on you all winter before you go back outside. No a/c in summer when its 30 deg and you are working on a hot engine that has been running all day. )
Why would anyone in their right mind sign up for that shit?
Then you cant find workers. So you outsource. Bring in a dozen guys from the Philippines. They work for a month, you sign their competency booklet and now they get to bypass the four years apprenticeship and write the interprovincial exam. Seems fair, right?
Go to school too spend thousands off dollors....work at walmart cause the job you went to sxhool for pays dick all.
Hell im workin for half my wage right now. I cNt even afford to work ? Crazy